[Answered] Problems upgrading a surface tablet

My mother has a surface tablet that came with windows 8. She wants to update it to Windows 10 if possible. I tried to run windows update, but it just continuously checked for updates and nothing ever happened. Is there a way to upgrade this tablet and activate it?

I would tread very lightly and not attempt its a real pain with drivers on surface. but if you can afford to buy her a new machine. I ran across an interesting read: Upgrade Surface devices to Windows 10 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. not sure if sharing direct links are against the rules so just change the xx to tt: hxxps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/upgrade-surface-devices-to-windows-10-with-mdt

I am not too sure if activation will allow I am too lazy to do more research

I know from a customer that the Arm Surface RT could be upgraded from 8.1 to 10 manually, just will have a few problems, the biggest: Touchscreen will not work!

Personally, I use 2 3.party Windows Tablets, both Wisebooks with intel Quad CPU's, one 10'1" and the other 8".
They're quite cheap in Thailand. The 10.1" with 32GB SSD, 2GB RAM, Intel Quad Core, SIM Slot, 3G, WiFi, 7400MAh, screen 1920 x 1080, 2 Cameras, include Bluetooth Keyboard, has cost US$ ~180! Work just excellent and I use that daily a lot time. The 8" with 16GB SSD, Intel Quad Core, 1 GB RAM, no SIM/3G, screen 1280x800 has cost US$ 80!! Both running now on Windows 10 Home, upgraded from 8.1! Unfortunate could not run on Pro because the Touchscreen will not work with W10!

As Snuffy suggest, use a 3.party tool, would be cheaper and even maybe better that the low-cost ARM Surface!

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I know from a customer that the Arm Surface RT could be upgraded from 8.1 to 10 manually, just will have a few problems, the biggest: Touchscreen will not work!

Personally, I use 2 3.party Windows Tablets, both Wisebooks with intel Quad CPU's, one 10'1" and the other 8".
They're quite cheap in Thailand. The 10.1" with 32GB SSD, 2GB RAM, Intel Quad Core, SIM Slot, 3G, WiFi, 7400MAh, screen 1920 x 1080, 2 Cameras, include Bluetooth Keyboard, has cost US$ ~180! Work just excellent and I use that daily a lot time. The 8" with 16GB SSD, Intel Quad Core, 1 GB RAM, no SIM/3G, screen 1280x800 has cost US$ 80!! Both running now on Windows 10 Home, upgraded from 8.1! Unfortunate could not run on Pro because the Touchscreen will not work with W10!

As Snuffy suggest, use a 3.party tool, would be cheaper and even maybe better that the low-cost ARM Surface!

I know from a customer that the Arm Surface RT could be upgraded from 8.1 to 10 manually, just will have a few problems, the biggest: Touchscreen will not work!

Personally, I use 2 3.party Windows Tablets, both Wisebooks with intel Quad CPU's, one 10'1" and the other 8".
They're quite cheap in Thailand. The 10.1" with 32GB SSD, 2GB RAM, Intel Quad Core, SIM Slot, 3G, WiFi, 7400MAh, screen 1920 x 1080, 2 Cameras, include Bluetooth Keyboard, has cost US$ ~180! Work just excellent and I use that daily a lot time. The 8" with 16GB SSD, Intel Quad Core, 1 GB RAM, no SIM/3G, screen 1280x800 has cost US$ 80!! Both running now on Windows 10 Home, upgraded from 8.1! Unfortunate could not run on Pro because the Touchscreen will not work with W10!

As Snuffy suggest, use a 3.party tool, would be cheaper and even maybe better that the low-cost ARM Surface!

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Its to bad its got a ARM processor, if it was an Intel core series Processor it wouldn`t be a problem, My surface has Corei5, 128SSD, 4GB Ram, 10 point Touchscreen. Works great with Windows 10 Pro x64..

LOL please Tito correct me if i`m wrong but i`m sure that Microsoft would try to keep up with drivers for there own hardware would they not? even if it is a few years old. Please correct me if i`m wrong.

Couldn't you understand that I may didn't know the details, I just mentioned in my post: "I know from a customer that .........." and NOT told that I had done that on my own! Please don't start to argue about something which wasn't posted! Thanks.

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Couldn't you understand that I may didn't know the details, I just mentioned in my post: "I know from a customer that .........." and NOT told that I had done that on my own! Please don't start to argue about something which wasn't posted! Thanks.

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Sorry i didn`t understand and i never ever want to argue with anyone, it`s not my style. I`m just trying to help but i see i can`t so i`ll leave it at that.